Leedey, Oklahoma evacuated due to wildfire, amid critical fire weather threat across southern Plains

Leedey, Oklahoma evacuated due to wildfire, amid critical fire weather threat across southern Plains

The town of Leedey, Oklahoma was evacuated Friday afternoon due to a fast-moving wildfire. A wildfire outbreak appears likely today across the southern Plains as extreme to historic fire weather conditions spread from the Texas Panhandle and Rolling Hills Country into much of Oklahoma and southeast Kansas. (Video Credit: Edward Krapcha/Facebook).